Good or bad?

Michael PoV

"What do you mean I'm gonna die!?" Felix yelled the morning of our first day of school.

"I mean that the spell to make you younger didn't quite work like I thought it would," I replied.

"Oh? How so, oh exalted leader," he said seething.

"Oh, where do I even begin?" When he continued to glare at me, I sighed and started to explain. "Ok, so, as you know, I pulled you out of the air when you got blown off that communications tower on Choras, right?"

"Yeah, what are you getting at?" He said, giving me a suspicious look.

"Well, some of your cybernetics got damaged in the grenade explosion."

"I get that part, you told me as much when I woke up, but that doesn't explain what you-"

"I wasn't finished," I interrupted him. "When I was in the universe, I make a huge gamble and pulled you out, and out of that dimension, but before I did, your heart essentially stopped, resulting in your death, which is why Locus was was able to wield your energy sword. To the world, that temple, and the universe, you were dead." He still stared at me, mentally telling me to get to the point. "But, when I restarted your heart, I told you that the damage was extensive and had to put you under surgery. Then we came to this universe. The surgery was a success, but, making you younger has put an enormous strain on your cybernetics and augmentations."

His eyes got wide in realisation and said, "But you said that if you made me younger…"

"I miscalculated," I said glumly. "The spell I used makes your body younger, but nothing inorganic changes with it. Essentially, I made your body shrink with the age reduction, but I also compressed your cybernetics, and the ones in your brain, liver, kidneys and heart, especially your heart, are digging into their respective organs." He pawed around his chest, I guessing so he could feel some of the wires running just underneath his skin. "But," I continued. "I can correct them. Repurposed them to fit a 17 year old. But it will take some time."

"How much time?" He asked after a pause.

"Well…." I motioned for him to get up and follow me, and walked down to the basement. Down stairs are about a dozen or so robotic androids, welding together some sheet metal along 3 of the walls, and some of the rest digging out under to the back yard. "I'd say give it about a week until home base is completely built, and another 3 days to get everything online. So, don't worry, my initial diagnostic gave you about 3 months before the healing module in your liver would fail, so, don't fret. Just thought I'd give you some worse to good news, now, go and get ready, we got school today."

Hugo PoV

I like it here. It's a good change from the dreary coldness of Draksus. The Diaz's and Princess Butterfly are all nice people, Mrs. Diaz was nursing me back to health, and I can now stand up without feeling dizzy or my legs getting all wobbly, it's slow work, but I'm getting better at it. Marco makes me feel at home as much as possible, and Star is really funny at times, she once pulled a human sized fish out of a top hat to try and impress me with, "non ice magic" magic, as she called it, but then the fish turned on her and swallowed her up. From it's translucent gut she said something that sounded like a muffled, "Not again." Before I could question it how ever, we all started laughing.

And then there were the… nightmares.

Whenever I finally fall asleep, I get these nasty night terrors, and I can never remember them. Just bits and pieces, a wall there, me falling off of it, and general Kai'sha'hall, whispering into my ear, things that even though I can't recall from sleep, send shivers down my spine, almost as if he's taunting me, telling me that i'm still in his world.

But other than that, there is only one thing wrong with this place. My brother.

Ever since he flooded my head with Guardian Corp information, I've been trying to call on something called The Force. From the knowledge that James put into me states, The Force is an energy field created by all living things, it binds us, penetrates us, holds the universe together. It is with us when we are born, and transcends with us as we die. One is all, and all is one…. That last bit still has me confused, but I've been trying to use the basic knowledge he gave me to try to sharpen my senses, and use the Force to help me heal, and to move things without touching them.

Yeah, that, that right there kind of has me wanting to keep on practicing harder. The knowledge also states that the Force is also a gateway to being a magic user. Then I can try to get Star and Marco to laugh by pulling a magic fish out of a hat. I don't know why, but, seeing them smile always makes me smile, Marco a bit more than Star, but, I'm not sure why.

But before I get off topic, Today, after nearly 2 and a half weeks of recovering, I'm trying for the nth time in Marcos bedroom to try and call upon the Force to move a little flimsy square thing that runs on something called 'electricity' and uses it to bring up the 'internet', I don't know what that is, some kind of net woven inside the little square? Anyway, I'm trying to move it with my mind but to no effect.

Getting frustrated, I sigh and lift my hand up and try to concentrate on nothing but the square. But again nothing. Finally getting fed up, I use all my mental power and whisper shout, "Move!" and thrusting out my hand, and to my surprise, I feel something in me snap, like a rubber band shooting back into place after it was stretched to the limit. An invisible… something, shot out from down my arm, and out to the square, and to my surprise and utter astonishment, it moved. It rotated a few inches on one of the corners, so now it was lopsided from my point of view. I was so utterly in awe of what I did that I jumped up and said something along the lines of 'yahoo!"

And then my legs gave out from under me and I collapsed. Feeling my strength leaving me, another piece of the knowledge that my brother James gave me pieced itself together.

The Force usually has two paths, one leading to light, prosperity and virtue… and the other leading to darkness, suffering and pain. The Light side of the Force focuses on controlling your emotions and using your power for selfless reasons, for protecting, and for learning more about the Force and the universe that surrounds us. The Dark side of the Force is more about the raw power coming from within. It focuses on controlling your emotions so that they can become a fuel for the fire that is your power, raw passion, and selfishness. It is often a path leading to evil, though, not all Guardians use the Light side exclusively, there are schools that teach us how to safely use the Dark side for the benefit of man, and alien kind throughout the known universe.

"So now you tell me," I mutter as I grab the edge of the bed and pulled myself up. I slowly sit down, then fall on my back as exhaustion starts to take me. From the bit of information that my brain now deemed time to let me know, I was using the Dark side just now when I moved the electric square. If this is the price for trying to get power faster, than I want to steer real clear of the Dark side. And even though something is telling me that the Light might not make me feel better, using my raw emotions seems like a bad idea, slow and steady seems like a good option here. And with that, I fall asleep.

End chapter 10

A/N: Ok, so first off, sorry for the long wait, I've been busy trying to find a right college for me.

And now to the important stuff, the OC Felix, isn't my original character, I'm kind of stealing him from the Red vs Blue series from Rooster teeth. Spoiler alert, he ends up dying in the most recent episode. So, I guess I'm just recycling him? I donno, I don't own him, but I AM warping his personality a little.

And I'm kind of gonna base James and Hugo off of existing characters as well. James, Hugo's older brother, is loosely based off of Kanan from the Star Wars Rebels series. Older, a bit wise, but inside he's a bit broken over what happened in his past. In Kanans case, it was seeing his Master killed and running during the end of the Clone Wars, and trying to redeem himself by training his young protege, Ezra(who is also a bit apart of Hugo's character). Hugo is loosely based off of Obi-Wan, young, wise and mindful of the Force, both Light and Dark. Incredibly patient, and a high pain threshold, he will grow up to be a great person.

Now, enough spoilers, some story help. I'm thinking about eventually including lemons, but not just yet. I feel like I kind of rushed Star and Marco's relationship, so, the coming events might be strained. That being said, please review and PM me your opinion. It will be much appreciated. So, until next time, this has been Bigmike33321, Signing off! *BOOP!*